An incredible weekend at the All England Club in Wimbledon saw four British wheelchair tennis players win titles, and amongst them, Gordon Reid, who became the first player to win a men’s singles title at the tournament.

The 24-year-old Reid, from Alexandria in Scotland, beat Sweden’s Paralympic Champion Stefan Olsson 6-1 6-4 in front of a full house on court 17 to add the title to the Australian Open title he won in January.

Wheelchair tennis has been played at Wimbledon since 2001 but this year is the first time men’s and women’s singles have featured.

“It’s incredible, I’ll never forget this moment” said Reid adding that “To have the opportunity to play singles here is something I’ve dreamed of for a long time.”

Reid, who was ranked third in the world at the start of the tournament now becomes the favourite to continue his run of good for and medal in Rio for ParalympicsGB and in so doing achieve his other personal goals of inspiring others to get involved with sport, telling the BBC that: “I said at the start of the week I wanted to achieve two things: First if there were any kids with disabilities, for this to inspire them to take up the sport. And second was to continue to break down the barriers when it comes to disability sport, to showcase the talent in the sport. The coverage and interest we’ve had this week, it’s been a big milestone and hopefully we can build on that.”

Reid’s singles title was his second Wimbledon title in as many days having already won the men’s doubles with Alfie Hewett on Saturday.

The pair were seeded second but in an incredible match proved too good for French players Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer, winning 4-6 6-1 7-6 (8/6).

There was further British success with Jordanne Whiley and Yui Kamiji winning their third consecutive Wimbledon women’s wheelchair doubles title.

The top seeds dispatched second seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot 6-2 6-2 in little over an hour. (Whiley had lost to Koot in the women’s singles semi-final earlier in the week.)

At one point the defending champions found themselves 2-0 down in the second set, but fought back to win six straight games and secure a comfortable victory.